US Patent Issued to Luminar Technologies on May 13 for "System and method for validation of lidar-generated horizon estimation" (California, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,408, issued on May 13, was assigned to Luminar Technologies Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"System and method for validation of lidar-generated horizon estimation" was invented by Dominik Nuss (Palo Alto, Calif.), Masood Taheri (San Jose, Calif.), Amey Sutavani (Mountain View, Calif.), Scott Walter (Palo Alto, Calif.), Scott Ryvola (San Jose, Calif.), Mohamed Ahmad (Vienna, Va.), Flavian Pegado (Mountain View, Calif.), Shubham C. Khilari (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Vahid R. Ramezani (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are described for assessing accuracy of a virtual horizon generated by a vehicle-based lidar sys...